Access to Digital Teaching and Learning Resources, Including Digital Textbooks

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Chair -Lynette
Members -David Lyndon, Wanda Humphrey, Angela Norris

Strategic Priority 3: Statewide Access to Digital Teaching and Learning Resources, Including Digital Textbooks
Essential Questions
What are digital teaching and learning resources? What are digital textbooks?
  • Digital teaching personalizes education for students, allows for flexible sceduling and differentiation.
  • Digital teaching extends learning anytime and anywhere, not confined to the 4 walls of a classroom.
  • Digital textbooks are electonic files that can be kept current with updates and new events as they happen without waiting for expensive revisions and reprints.
  • Digital textbooks provide links with addtional materials to promote understanding and provide differentiation for diverse learners.


Why do teachers and students need access to digital teaching and learning devices?

  • Digital learning allows for an individualized educational experience (self-paced)
  • Digital learning allows for blended learning both traditional setting/online setting
  • Digital textbooks provide high quality and up to date content
  • Digital textooks are cost effective and can be updated quickly without the cost of reprint
  • Digital textbooks allow for differentiation (can include simulations, links to addtional resources, learning games and virtual envirnoments)

What are open educational resources and how can they be used?
  • Learn NC digital Online History textbook
  • NC Wise Owl - free teaching and learning repository
  • Itunes U - free teaching and learning resources
  • Thinkfinity - Educational portal for teachers, parents and students
  • SAS Curriculum Pathways Science, Math, Language Arts, Social Studies, Foreign Language
  • NCVPS
  • Open Textbooks Digital History, CK-12
  • Microsoft IT Acadeny (MSITA)

How can access to these resources be increased in our LEA?
  • Staff development to provide awareness of resource availability
  • Hardware availability-labs, laptop carts, ipads, ipod touch devices, schools with 1:1 devices
  • Provide access as funds become available to improve infrastructure
  • Provide technical support for hardware


Notes to Self:

WCS Tech Plan;

Goal 5: Wilson County Schools will be governed and supported by 21st Century systems.


Objectives
  • Processes are in place for financial planning and budgeting that focus on resource attainment and alignment with priorities to maximize student achievement.
  • Twenty-first century technology and learning tools are available and are supported by facilities that have the capacity for 21st Century learning.
  • Informational and financial accounting systems will share data and maximize system resources and efficiency.
  • Procedures are in place to support schools that are not meeting standards for student achievement.